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Taliban has ‘dismantled’ human rights in Afghanistan, Amnesty warns a year after the fundamentalists seize power
Hundreds of people gather near a US Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 16, 2021

THE Taliban has “dismantled” human rights in Afghanistan, an Amnesty International report documenting a litany of abuses in the year since the group seized power has said. 

Hundreds of security personnel and former government officials have been subjected to extrajudicial killings — possibly amounting to war crimes — the report published today claims. 

A brutal crackdown on freedom of expression has seen the fundamentalist group ban peaceful protest, and intimidate, torture and arbitrarily detain journalists who do not “tow the line,” it added. 

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